Two years have passed since my brother Meng Bo was buried.

During the past two years, Meng Zhong continued to learn Taoism and famous scholars' thoughts and theories of thoughts from Zhuangzi, but in his spare time, he would read the military parade books repeatedly in private.

Military books, namely the art of war, are the most well-known works of military arts in contemporary times, namely "Sun Wu"'s "The Art of War", "Wu Qi"'s "The Art of War", and Sun Bin's "The Art of War".

Sun Wu, a native of Qi, served as the army sir in Wu State for the recommendation of his friend "Wu Zixu". He trained the soldiers of Wu State, which made the Wu State army at that time become unprecedentedly strong. Even Chu State could not resist it. Sun Wu and Wu Zixu captured the capital.

Meng Zhong had heard some anecdotes about Sun Wu's friend "Wu Zixu".

Wu Zixu was a noble family from the Chu State. His father, Wu She, the grand tutor of the Crown Prince of Chu State, was destroyed by the obscure King Ping of Chu because he was implicated by the incident of "Crown Prince Jian being framed by a treacherous minister".

After that, Wu Zixu angrily defected to Wu State and helped King Wu to "he (hé) Lu (lǘ)" to conquer Chu State.

On the day of defeating Chu, the foolish king, King Ping of Chu, was dead, so Wu Zixu asked his soldiers to dig up the tomb and beat King Ping of Chu with a whip, whipping three hundred corpses to avenge his father and brother.

Later, King Helu of Wu passed away, and Wu Zixu supported his son "Fuchai" to succeed to the throne. During the "Wu Yue battle for hegemony", King "Fuchai" not only did not obey Wu Zixu's advice to kill King "Goujian" who was defeated by his Wu Kingdom, but instead believed in the slander of the treacherous ministers and gave Wu Zixu a sword and ordered Wu Zixu to commit suicide.

Wu Zixu had no choice but to draw his sword and commit suicide. However, before committing suicide, he asked someone to take off his eyes and hang it on the East City Gate, saying that he wanted to watch the Yue army destroy the Wu Kingdom with his own eyes.

As expected, nine years after Wu Zixu's death, Wu was defeated by the army of Yue, and Wu was destroyed. King Goujian of Yue followed Duke Huan of Qi, Duke Xiang of Song, Duke Wen of Jin, Duke Zhuang of Chu, Duke Mu of Qin, and King Helu of Wu, and became the last overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. [PS: The allusion of "Sleeping on firewood and tasting gall" refers to King Goujian of Yue. In addition, "Five Hegemons of Spring and Autumn Period" only refers to the five most representative overlords of the Spring and Autumn Period, but in fact, it was not only five who made dominant measures at that time.]

And Sun Wu, after Wu Zixu was forced to death by King Fuchai of Wu, resigned from his position as Sima of Wu, no longer planned wars for the Wu Kingdom, but lived in seclusion in the countryside and repaired his works on military arts, namely "The Art of War".

Wu Qi was a native of Wei and had a lot of money in his family. In order to show his ambitions when he was young, he studied Confucianism under the disciple of Confucius' disciple "Zeng Shen".

However, when Wu Qi's mother passed away, he did not go home to mourn and mourn according to the Confucian creed of loyalty and filial piety, so he was expelled from the door by Zeng Shen.

From then on, Wu Qi abandoned Confucianism and studied soldiers and defected to Lu after he finished his studies.

At that time, when Qi was attacking Lu, Duke Mu of Lu originally wanted to activate Wu Qi, but he was worried because Wu Qi's wife was a daughter of Qi. So Wu Qi killed his wife, expressing his feelings, and eventually helped Lu defeat Qi's army. However, Wu Qi himself was criticized for this.

Due to suspicion from Duke Mu of Lu, Wu Qi left Lu and turned to Wei. Finally, he was able to show his ambitions in Wei. The "Wei Wuzhang" he trained was called the strongest army in the world. With this army, Wu Qi also set an unbeaten record of "72 battles, 64 wins, and the rest are not determined to win or lose."

The most famous thing about Wu Qi is that he defeated the "Fight of Yin Jin" of Qin with 500,000 Wei soldiers, and seized more than 500 miles of Qin's land in Hexi.

It has to be said that although Wu Qi is indeed criticized for his personal "private morality", he is definitely a rare famous general in terms of military management.

The military strategy written by Wu Qi is the "War Art of Wu Zi".

As for Sun Bin, the most talked about is the grudges between him and his fellow disciple "Pang Juan".

They are both brothers of the same school, and they are also disciples of Guiguzi. "Su Qin" used the method of provoking to inspire "Zhang Yi", making Zhang Yi a real man who "has anger and the princes are afraid". However, Pang Juan was jealous of Sun Bin, and after learning that the latter came out of the mountain, he deceived him to Wei State and was persecuted by "Bin" and "Tantai". [PS: Bin Xian, that is, two kneecaps are dug up, so that people can no longer stand. Therefore, Sun Bin is called Sun Bin, whose real name is said to be "Sun Boling", and is a descendant of Sun Wu. As for Tantai, it is to use ink tattoos on the face, which is usually a crime committed by pattern tattoos.]

Later, Sun Bin survived by pretending to be crazy and foolish. Until Qi's envoy "Tian Ji" came to Wei, Sun Bin tried every means to meet Tian Ji and begged the latter to help him escape from the cage. Tian Ji admired Sun Bin's talent very much, so he helped Sun Bin escape from Wei.

After that, Sun Bin became Tian Ji's aide. [PS: Tian Ji, the one in the allusion of "Tian Ji's horse racing".]

Later in the "Battle of Guilin", because Wei State attacked Zhao State, Qi State ordered Tian Ji to lead his army to attack Wei State and rescue Zhao State. At that time, Sun Bin proposed the tactic of "surrounding Wei State to save Zhao", which defeated Pang Juan and made him captured by Qi Army alive.

Later, during the "Battle of Maling", because Wei State attacked South Korea, after receiving a request from South Korea, Qi State once again implemented Sun Bin's "surround Wei and save Zhao" tactic, attacked Daliang, the capital of Wei State, and ambushed Pang Juan on Maling Road. Pang Juan hated that he was defeated twice by Sun Bin and committed suicide angrily.

It has to be said that during the period when Wei State obtained Pang Juan, Wei State once again showed an upcoming momentum, but was suppressed by the forces of Qi represented by Tian Ji and Sun Bin, and Wei State was unable to recover after that.

After that, Sun Bin compiled a military book, namely "The Art of War of Sun Bin".

However, in addition to the well-known "The Art of War", "The Art of War of Wu Zi" and "The Art of War of War", there are actually several other military books in Zhuangzi's collection that are no less than these three, such as "The Art of War of War" written by "Tai Gong Wang" and "Sima Rang (ráng) Zhu (jū)". [PS: "The Art of War of War", which is the one taught by the old man of Huangshi, "The Art of War of War" by Zhang Liang, the Prime Minister of Han. "The Six Strategies" is part of it.]

Taigong Wang, namely Jiang Shang, or Lu Wang, is commonly known as Jiang Ziya. He was one of the greatest heroes of the Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Shang Dynasty. The ancestor of the Jiang family Qi State was an early military sage who was a Taoist sage. However, since Jiang Ziya was also a Taoist figure, his works were also classified as Taoism.

As for "Sima Rangju", that is, Tian Rangju, he was a descendant of the Tian family of the Chen royal family (Chen family), and was also the best-in-class Qi State after Taigong.

Compared with the three parts of "The Art of War", "The Art of War of Wu Zi", "The Art of War of War of Sun Bin", Sima Rangju's "The Art of War of War" and Taigong's "The Art of War of War" have always been treasures collected by Qi. However, Zhuangzi can collect some of these two military books, even if they are not complete, it is a very incredible thing.

In fact, these military books were not collected by Zhuangzi, but by his close friend Hui Shi. It is said that when Hui Shi was the prime minister of Wei, he liked to read books and discuss books all over the world, and collected a lot of books. Later, when Hui Shi lost his power and was about to go to Chu, he asked someone to give these books to Zhuangzi. Therefore, there were so many miscellaneous books in Zhuangzi's collection. In addition to Taoist books, there were also famous scholars, Confucianism, military scholars, Legalists, etc.

For example, "Laozi", "The Book of Changes", "The Book of Changes", "Guiguzi", "Liezi", "Yang Zhu", and "The Book of Dharma" compiled by Li Ku, a famous prime minister of the Wei State, etc., can be said to be very rich.

But it is unknown whether Zhuangzi has read these books.

Meng Zhong dared not confirm this because he knew that although Zhuangzi collected these works, this was not Zhuangzi's lack of prejudice against these works. The best example is Confucianism.

In the past two years, Meng Zhong also encountered many confusions when he was watching the military tactics, but he did not dare to ask Zhuangzi for advice, because once when Zhuangzi passed by him, he frowned when he saw him watching the military tactics, and he obviously showed an unswerving look.

The reason for this is nothing more than that Zhuangzi hopes that his disciple Meng Zhong can "let go" his brother Meng Bo's hatred, and do not enter the world and pursue the great way.

But unfortunately, two years are not enough to make Meng Zhong forget this grudge.

"A Zhong."

Today, when Meng Zhong was reading "The Art of War", Le Jin walked into his room and told him, "The Master asked you to go to the main house."

"good."

Hearing this, Meng Zhong put down the bamboo slips in his hand and stood up.

Meng Zhong, who was fourteen years old at this time, was nearly adult height. In addition, he had been constantly exercising his body in recent years, so his body was quite strong. However, when he was wearing a wide robe and holding a bamboo slip in his hand, most people might think that he was just a scholar without any power, but few people knew that Meng Zhong actually had martial arts skills that could compete with Wu Ying, Meng Hu, Hua Hu and others.

A moment later, Meng Zhong came to the main house where Zhuangzi lived, and saw that inside the main house, Zhuangzi's seat was filled with bamboo slips.

These bamboo slips are the "Xiaoyaoyou" written by Zhuangzi in the past two years, which is the article written by Zhuangzi on his sleeve when Meng Zhong first traveled with Zhuangzi two years ago.

In fact, Zhuangzi had already written "Xiaoyaoyou" half a year ago, but he was not satisfied with it. Therefore, in the following time, Zhuangzi continued to delete and modify this film until today.

However, at the moment, seeing Zhuangzi's face filled with a satisfied smile, I think this article "Xiaoyaoyou" has been revised to satisfy Master Zhuang, so the master anxiously called his most respected disciple Meng Zhong.

Sure enough, after seeing Meng Zhong, Zhuangzi pointed to the bamboo slips and signaled Meng Zhong to recite.
Chapter completed!